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Shotglass
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i agree with james may ... the world would be a better place had the allieds bombed the nürburgring
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shocking a mid engined road car will understeer if you intentinally induce it
who woulda thunk?
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Quote from Crashgate3 :A conversation with a work colleague a few months ago, after I mentioned that my four-year-old son has a doll he sometimes plays with.

Them: "What? Why do you let him do that??!"
Me: "??????"
Them: "Well, aren't you worried me might grow up to be......... er....well...."
Me: "What, a Dad?"

unfortunately the only cure for stupidity is rather drastic and irreversible
Shotglass
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walter levins method of demonstrating pendulums is much more awesome
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv-cDo0Q0xA&t=4m30s
Shotglass
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for whatever reason lfs is able to make framerates tank on almost any machine as soon as theres more than maybe 5 cars on screen
Shotglass
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Quote from MadCatX :http://www.digitaltrends.com/c ... 0-graphics-tested/#!Dtj9u

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim: 1366×768 DirectX 11 medium detail preset
Battlefield 3: 1366×768 DirectX 11 medium detail preset
Deus Ex Human Revolution: 1366×768 DirectX 11 normal detail MSAA on

and it barely breaks 30
Shotglass
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you can play brood war for free these days
only rts anyone will ever need
Shotglass
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Quote from Eclipsed :Doesn't that indicate some general flaws in physics model?

kinda
a lot speeds with a curve based system youre basically doing a divide by zero in your fomulae which results in all sorts of werid behaviours
solution dont stand still
Shotglass
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Quote from Bose321 :Maybe a weird question, but are the Fanatec drivers installed, and up-to-date? Also, what firmware is on the wheel? Might want to look into that. Maybe LFS uses a different method to send FFB to wheels.

yes of course the 177 driver are installed (at least i think that was the latest version when we installed it about a week ago
and i have no idea which firmware is on the wheel since the driver doesnt tell you
Shotglass
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no my points are the exact opposite of what youre saying
but nice attempt at trying to twist my words
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Quote from tristancliffe :Look at F1 wings. The first element has a very low AoA, and the air coming goes upwards. The second element has a low AoA to that airflow, but larger against the ground.. The third element is even more steeply angled, but it's AoA to the air that's hitting it is surprisingly low.

so much wrong with that
1) the first element of the rear wing has a fairly high aoa of 14-15° (depending on the track and so on of course) as you can see from the best side on image i was able to find (not ideal but its sufficiently close to being exactly from the side that perspective errors dont make much of a difference)
2) for lift cause while reversing the rear wing will have the largest effect which is a 2 element wing on an f1
3) the elements arent seperate wings operating in their own flow regimes the elements for an overal wing with a fairly high aoa (~25° in the attached image) with a slot that serves to energise the boundary layer (similar to how leading edge slats work) allowing the wing to operate at those silly high aoas without stalling

Quote from Dennis93 :The profile of an aircraft is completely different and should not be compared, as they work in two different ways.

no they dont

Quote :Downforce is not about pushing air up

yes it is (at least as far as upper body downforce is concerned)
unless you accelerate air up your car wont accelerate down
newtons 3rd law and so forth

Quote from tristancliffe :If AoA was all important, then why do they bother with the 'flat' first element at all? Get rid of it, save the weight, and just have a wing at high AoA to make it work...

1) if aoa wasnt all important how does a plane fly upside down?
and again
2) the first element has a high aoa
3) the elements arent seperate wings
Shotglass
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have you ever actually seen an f1 car? they run their wings at a massively high aoa to generate their downforce
just the profile alone does hardly anything as evident from the fairly typical graph that clearly shows that a wing at 0 aoa doesnt produce even a third of the forces its capable of

for this admitedly not very f1 like airfoil the point where the drag gradient overtakes lift making it seriously inefficient to raise the aoa would be at around a massive 15°
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lift_drag_graph.JPG

unfortunately i cant seem to find any curves like these for airfoils going though the air the wrong way round but considering even a flat profile can create enough lift to keep something flying they will undoubtedly produce a significant amount of lift
Shotglass
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Quote from tristancliffe :The angle of attack has little to do with it (more to do with drag). The profile of the wing is what causes lift (downforce)

any other rules about the way wings work in fantasy land that one should know about?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lift_curve.svg
Shotglass
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Quote from Racer Y :"Survival of the fittest" should be rephrased as "survival of the more adequate".

fit in survival of the fittest means survival of the one who fits the niche hes in best not the one whos the most buff

Quote :Why isn't random chance allowed in divergent evolution?

uh? random chance is the entire way evolution works
Shotglass
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yeah except for the ffb the wheel and pedals work perfectly fine
and yes ffb is enabled in the options and turned up way too high for it not to be noticeable
i havent tried resetting the controllers in game although im not sure how that would help when restarting lfs doesnt
Fanatec CSW no FFB in LFS
Shotglass
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A friend bought a CSW this week and I cant seem to figure out how to get FFB working in LFS.
The FFB works fine in the driver and AC so it appears to be a LFS issue.

I've already tried disconnecting the pedals to make sure the wheels is the only controller that windows sees and I've also made sure that the wheels is the primary game controller in windows neither of which helped.

Any ideas?
Shotglass
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Quote from Ball Bearing Turbo :No, not at all.

Extremism is dangerous. Christians should be extreme in their love for others, nothing more.

you were saying?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be3aFUijuJ8
Shotglass
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Quote from Matrixi :This functionality was _not_ in W8 when I tried it. Seeing how MS have backtracked to bring it more and more back to desktop rather than touch after their abysmal sales, it wouldn't surprise me if they added it back.

the w7 style control panel was always still fully functional in its entirety in w8
Shotglass
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Quote from Matrixi :Guess they've added that in the last 3 months then, because it wasn't there before.

Edit: How it used to go. https://www.youtube.com/watch? ... age&v=-mhNQ03CDQs#t=7

yeah... except that screenshot is from a thread from may last year
http://www.drwindows.de/window ... dung-mit-windows-8-a.html

but lets not allow facts to get in the way of a perfectly good "microsoft is so evil for changing the way some things behave" narrative
Shotglass
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Quote from Matrixi :Guess you've never used Bluetooth in W8 then. Select BT from the desktop and it brings you in to the metro interface devices list, there's no more desktop equivalent control panel for it.

Available BT settings in W7
Just a devices menu in W8

rubbish
http://www.drwindows.de/attach ... ndung-mit-windows-8-3.jpg
Shotglass
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Quote from Dygear :11% of Windows XP Users Will Switch to Linux, Survey Claims

Although the source might be a little bias.

biased... learn your own bloody language
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Quote from Racer X NZ :So, it's great to see how many of you feel that not going, "Please, let us be a USA ( Yay, USA,USA !) puppet actually is a good thing.

If the only thing you watch is US ( or their puppets ) media, then I fully understand why you disagree. If you actually know about reality, then you will know about Hugo. Yes, he disagree with America, BUT, what he actually said ?, did ?...... Was that incorrect ?

But, as most of you only believe your propoganda, HE IS EVIL, SINFULL !!!!!!
AND NO ONE IN SOUTH AMERICA SUPPORTS HIM. As we all want to be USA, USA, USA puppets.

WE ALL LOVE USA,USA,USA,USA,USA,USA,USA...............

The above was a post by the Drug cartels that the USA, USA, USA, is currently 'dealing' with.

Oh, have I been offensive again ?, Sorry, I keep forgetting that no one wants to know about reality.

Why am I so cynical ?, well, here, we've been part of this 'USA' stuff for years, it's a small country and it's really easy getting up to speed about the games that are being played.
5 Eye's ?, FYI, it's 6 and the one that isn't mentioned actually run's it.............

por que no te callas?
Shotglass
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do they have a turbo boost adjustment like in the old days?
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Quote from amp88 :One possible outcome (thinking in the ~50 year range) is that fusion or hybrid fission-fusion reactors may be a solution to dispose of the highly dangerous and long-lasting nuclear waste that results from current fission technology.

fusion reactors create nuclear waste too though
granted its half life is a lot lower and people are researching reactor building materials that have a short half life but its still a bit of an issue

not to mention that fusion is a technology that is perpetually a mere 20 years from working
Shotglass
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Quote from Becky Rose :but I chose to continue to worship this evil child buggering bastard anyway because I chose to believe that if I do not then I will burn for eternity in mythological flames.". That would, at the very least, be a reasoned argument.

catholic priests take a different approach to the reasoned argument and interpret the "in god own image" literally when it comes to child abuse
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